The title and theme of our seminar fell into place relatively quickly, and one that I am unashamed to take the credit for!  Media VI; A New Hope.  (I had brainstormed some other title suggestions to tie in with the Star Wars theme, such as ‘The (Work) Force Awakens’, or ‘The Phantom Graduate’, but they just didn’t have the same ring as the original.)

That contribution aside, it’s somewhat embarrassing that we’re less than three weeks away from our presentation, and I have been unsuccessful in finding any guests either willing or available to participate in our seminar.  It’s a nervous waiting game, sending out no more than three emails at a time so that we don’t double-book, but the first wave of emails was unsuccessful.  After finally landing a well known Australian Producer, I was immediately relieved, only to be cruelly thrust back to square one after they cancelled.

I’m really starting to feel the pressure after watching the previous seminars, particularly the Social Media group, who managed to put on a wonderful event, despite having less than two weeks to fully prepare.  I have a lot of faith in the rest of our team, but the success of our seminar may very well be dependent on who I can contact that isn’t out of the country in three weeks time.

And so it begins.  Organising a seminar open to the public seems daunting in itself, added to that the fact that we must arrange for three film industry professionals to come in and talk to us seems insane.  Perhaps we are thinking too high up the ladder to begin with though.  Names like George Miller, Baz Lurhman and even Geoffrey Rush are being tossed around, and I’ve somehow been assigned to reach out to them.

The roles for each group member appear to have fallen into place quite easily, mostly we have nominated ourselves for which section of the seminar’s production we would like to participate in, and the numbers seem to work out.  We have a big group with 14 members, though whether that is actually beneficial to us is yet to be seen.

I’m very much looking forward to witnessing the first few weeks of the seminar series, to draw on inspiration from other groups, and see how high they set the bar.  Our presentation is scheduled for Week 9 and I am still doubtful of what we can achieve in that amount of time, let alone what the poor group presenting in under two weeks time can come up with!